Re: Why doesn't zap_pte_range() call page_mkwrite()

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On Fri, 24 Apr 2009, Miklos Szeredi wrote:
> Hmm, I guess this is a bit nasty: the VM promises filesystems that
> ->page_mkwrite() will be called when the page is dirtied through a
> mapping, _almost_ all of the time.  Except when munmap happens to race
> with clear_page_dirty_for_io().
> 
> I don't have any ideas how this could be fixed, CC-ing linux-mm...

On second thought, we could possibly just ignore the dirty bit in that
case.  Trying to write to a mapping _during_ munmap() will have pretty
undefined results, I don't think any sane application out there should
rely on the results of this.

But how knows, the world is a weird place...

Miklos
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